A few days after President Uhuru Kenyatta issued title deeds to Waitiki farm owners in Mombasa, members of the Ogiek community from Nesuit and Mariashoni locations, Njoro sub-County Nakuru County.
They want the president to intervene and settle them in their ancestral land in the Mau complex. According to them, some powerful people in the former regimes subjected the Ogieks to a long period of historical injustices, and now it is high time justice was served .
The community members claim that a long time court battle with the politically powerful people left them poorer than they were, adding that the new constitution protects every Kenyan from any form of marginalisation.
The angry members of the minority Ogieks claim that the said parcel of land was given to them by former President Moi in the 1980s but their efforts to acquire land title deeds have been futile.
Addressing a meeting at Ngongongeri area in Njoro on Monday, the community members led by their elders, Simon Kiprotich and Joseph Towett, claim that the powerful personalities have been harassing the community members by using hired police officers to intimidate them.